TOP 5 CELL PHONES

Samsung Electronics is the largest electronics company in the world, based in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It considered the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group. Samsung Electronics was founded in 1969 in Suwon, South Korea as Samsung Electric Industries, and originally manufactured electric appliances such as TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines. By 1981, the company had manufactured over 10 million black and white TVs. In 1988 it merged with Samsung Semiconductor & Communications.

Apple Inc is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers.

Established on April 1st, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated on 3 January 1977, the company went by the name Apple Computer, Inc for the first 30 years of its life, but the word “Computer” was dropped on 9 January 2007 to reflect the company’s continuous expansion into the consumer electronics market aside from its traditional focus on personal computers. For reasons as varied as its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design and its distinctive advertising campaigns, Apple has established a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry. This includes a customer base that is devoted to the company and its brand, particularly in the USA.

At the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the long-anticipated iPhone, the fusion of an internet-enabled smartphone and iPod. The iPhone first became available on 29 June 2007. On 9 June 2008, at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone 3G would be available on 11 July 2008. The software capabilities were renewed as well: with the release of the new iPhone came the release of Apple’s App Store, a source of applications for download that were compatible with the iPhone. By 24 April 2009, the App Store exceeded one billion downloads. On 8 June 2009, during WWDC 2009, the iPhone 3GS was revealed. This represented an incremental update to the device; including faster internal components, support for faster 3G speeds, video recording capability, and voice control. On 7 June 2010, at WWDC 2010, the iPhone 4 was announced, which Apple says is “the biggest leap we’ve taken” since the original iPhone.

Nokia Corp is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that has its headquarters in Keilaniemi, Espoo, near Finland’s capital Helsinki. The company operates in the fields of mobile-device manufacturing and converging internet and communications industries. Nokia is the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, producing mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia offers internet services such as applications, games, music, maps, media, and messaging through its Ovi platform. Nokia Siemens Networks, a Nokia subsidiary, provides tele­communications network equipment, solutions, and services. Nokia also engages in offering free digital map information and navigation services through its wholly-owned subsidiary Navteq.

The Nokia Research Center, founded in 1986, is Nokia’s industrial research unit with about 500 researchers, engineers, and scientists. It has sites in seven countries: China, Finland, India, Kenya, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Besides its research centers, in 2001 Nokia founded Nokia Institute of Technology (INdT), a R&D institute located in Brazil which it still owns.

Motorola Inc is an American-based, multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. Motorola started in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, as Galvin Manufacturing Corp, with its first product being a battery eliminator. Paul Galvin purchased the patents to the automotive radio and the rights to the trade name of Motorola from William Lear. The company name of Motorola was adopted in 1930, and the word has been in use as a trademark since the 1930s.Motorola now manufactures wireless telephone handsets, and also designs and sells equipment for wireless network infrastructures, such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola’s home and broadcast network products include set-top boxes and digital video recorders, as well as network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its commercial and government clients mainly concentrate on wireless voice and broadband systems used to create both private networks and public safety communications systems. Motorola’s handset division focuses on smartphones using Android, an open-source mobile operating system (OS) by Google. The first phone to use the newest version of Google’s open source OS, Android 2.0, was released on 2 November 2009 as the Motorola Droid; the GSM version was launched a month later in Europe as the Motorola Milestone.